Coronation Street viewers are still reeling from the devastating episode which saw Michelle Connor and Steve McDonald lose their baby in a devastating miscarriage. And Kym Marsh has warned that there is a long road to recovery for her character as she has endured something that will change her forever.

When we caught up with Kym, she told us: ‘It’s like a domino effect, it doesn’t just end with the mum and the dad and the baby. It’s about what happens to everyone else and what happens to their emotions. Getting people to open up and discuss was obviously our reason behind it. My mum actually watched these episodes before they came out, my family were allowed to see these episodes because it’s important.

‘Obviously, it doesn’t just affect me, it affects my children who are 19 and 21 now, obviously Polly hasn’t seen them, that would be too much – and we sat there all together and watched the episodes and my mum lost a baby between my older brother and sister and we all knew about that anyway but back then, they didn’t have scans and things like that, that never happened but my mum lost her baby, her baby tragically died in the womb and once they realised that my mum had to deliver her baby and she never even got to see her baby. She didn’t even know what that baby was – and that must have been horrific, because at that time as well, everything was very different. People tended not to talk about it.

‘What was interesting was, although we’d heard my mum’s story, after we watched the episode, we were all sat in the room and she just started to talk and talk and talk and other things that we hadn’t heard before and her own feelings and I just went, there you go, that’s what this is about.’

Speaking about how Michelle will change, she added: ‘I think in the coming weeks you’re going to see a different Michelle, because she is quite broken at the moment, and so you’re probably not going to see much of the old Michelle. You’re going to see someone that many people don’t recognise and that is actually something that I had, nobody recognised me when i had gone through all of that. It’s important to get that across because she is completely broken and so for a good few weeks, you’re going to see quite a broken Michelle. You might start to see glimmers of her in the future storylines but not for a very long time.’